Well, just taxes.
Hey, New Mexicans did you notice that increase in the sales tax July 1st? (Actually, the gross receipts tax, but the same thing at the cash register.)
The state rate is now 5.125 percent, but the counties and cities add on to that. In Albuquerque the total is now 7%. It’s 7.375% in the Bernalillo County part of Rio Rancho, 7.1875 in the Sandoval County part. It’s 7.625% in Las Cruces (New Mexico’s second largest city) and a whooping 8.1875% in Santa Fe, indeed the city different.
6.625 in Santa Fe County, however …
9.1% in Tucson now.
The fiduciaries in Santa Fe appear to need a lot of help with budgeting, or rather, enacting greater accountability and oversight with their expenditures.